Manuscript on 2 vellum scrolls of Tyrtaeus, Elegies, with figure-poems of Dosiadas, Simmias, Besantinus, and Theocritus (attrubuted author), and hymns of Mesomedes and Arion. Said to be third century, but actually 19th-century forgery
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Tyrtaeus.
Subject (Topic):
Greek poetry, Literary forgeries and mystifications, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on 3 vellum scrolls of laws and statutes of the Byzantine empire. Said to be of the 5th, 9th, and 11th centuries, but actually written in the 19th century
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire.
Subject (Topic):
Literary forgeries and mystifications and Manuscripts, Medieval
Collection of autograph manuscript forgeries of William Shakespeare documents by William Henry Ireland. Contents include forgeries of Shakespeare signatures, receipts, promissory notes, letters, and poetry, as well as the forged signatures of contempo...
Description:
Binding: contemporary full calf; compartmented spine.
Subject (Name):
Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833, Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833--Bookplate, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Forgeries
Subject (Topic):
Forgery of manuscripts--Great Britain and Literary forgeries and mystifications
